At 8/3/11 07:13 PM, link4president wrote:
imagine being a young boy walking into your local gaming store with your mom in 1999. You see a super Nintendo, Nintendo 64 and the playstation. You look over at the playstation games with curiosity and decide to buy a game or two "just get one honey." Your mom says. So you look and look but nothing looks good and there it is. You see a spiky haired man holding a giant sword. So you decide to buy it.You finish your math homework and chores and you finely get to play your brand new game. You popped the game in and played for a few hours and was stunned on how good it was. Well thats not me after i got done with all my chores and math homework just to be really really disappointed on how bad it was. The graphics were just awful and blocky for a 1997 playstation game especially one that was a lot of people keep saying "revolutionary for its time." Well thats not true if you owned a sega saturn with the game Nights Into Dreams.Those were great graphics and Nights was in stores 1 year before ff7. Music was okay i got to admit that. Now for the story. The story was bland,boring, and down right terrible. Characters had no personality.Gameplay was just awful. I was just mad on how i just bought this game. Not being a brat i struggled on the beat the game and i beat it! Or so i thought i only beat disk one! So i just gave up and sold my copy. I loved the original final fantasy along with 2 and 3. I know theres a lot of final fantasy fans that thought that ff7 was the best out of the bunch. I have to disagree with them. That's my experience.
Firstly, I have no idea what being a young boy and chores has to do with anything, and secondly I already said the graphics were never good. When someone says FFVII was revolutionary they are definitely not talking about the graphics(except maybe the combat graphics, but even they're not amazing). At the beginning of the game I thought Cloud was an annoying twat, but the rest of the characters definitely had personality. In fact I'd say they were the most entertaining cast out of all FF games, they certainly made me laugh the most(with the possible exception of FFIX). The story seems bland too at first but it picks up a few hours in and just keeps getting better. Whether the story is good or not is subjective but I've never seen a story quite like FFVII's, even though it's poorly written at times(but so is every other FF game).
If you like Final Fantasy I don't see how you could find the gameplay bad as it's just the same turn based combat, and the Materia system makes it more customisable. And how on earth is the fact that it's long a bad point? The length is one of the best things about the FF games.
FFVII isn't my favourite Final Fantasy (that would be FFIX) but again, there's no problem with disliking it, it just doesn't make any sense when you say you loved the rest but absolutely hated FFVII. It's like saying you absolutely love Super Mario Bros. but hate SMB 3, even though it's just more of the same but refined and improved. It's not like you're simply calling it bad either, you're calling it the WORST GAME OF ALL TIME. Whether you like the game or not it definitely doesn't deserve that.
Also when you say you loved FFII & III do you mean the American II and III or the actual II and III?